Travel digest
STENA Line has a special offer from €44 per person for rugby fans travelling by car (with four passengers) to the Heineken Cup to watch Munster take on Scarlets in Llanelli on December 10. The deal is for travel by Superferry from Rosslare. See www.s tenaline.ie/rugby, or contact 01-2047777.
AFTER Ireland’s success against Estonia it’s all systems go for the trip to Euro 2012 in Poland and Ukraine next June. As the official agents for the FAI, Abbey Travel Sports will be offering packages and is now taking registrations before those packages can be finalised. Contact sports@abbeytravel.ie or 01-8047102.
BREATHTAKING scenery, quiet paths, regional cuisine and local people with tales to tell are all waiting to be discovered, according to organisers of Inntravel’s Villas, Cottages & More programme. If interested in sampling something different, it might be worth a look at what this UK firm has on offer. Visit www.inntravel.co.uk.
IRELAND’S biggest Science Fiction and Fantasy Fiction Festival will take place in Wexford town from November 25 to 27. Highlights of the festival programme include talks for schoolchildren with top author Eoin Colfer, and how to navigate the night sky with Astronomy Ireland. There are also space toy and Lego workshops. See www.visitwexford.ie.
GOHOP.IE has several offers geared towards winter sun-seekers, amongst them a seven-night trip to Grenada in the Caribbean priced from €1,139 per person sharing. The 3-star holiday includes return flights from Dublin, 20kg luggage allowance, seven nights hotel and all taxes. The company also has a range of other similarly priced options available.

